Shetterly, Margot Lee

Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman. - )unpaged)pages (color illustrations)cm

Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes.

9780062742469

bl2017053052


United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration --Officials and employees--Biography--Juvenile literature.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration --Biography.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration --Officials and employees--Biography.


Women mathematicians--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African American women--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African American mathematicians--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Space race--Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians.
African American women.
African American mathematicians.
Space race.
African Americans--Biography.
Women--Biography.
Women mathematicians--United States--Biography.
African American women--Biography.
African American mathematicians--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.
Women--Biography.

QA27.5 / .L44 2018

510.92/520973 B 920